“8 is hands down the best album by Ufomammut, so far. I can’t even imagine how they are gonna surpass this masterpiece. 8 is one uncompromised journey through a chaotic infernal devilish machine, where the listener has no means of escape before it all ends in the abyss. It’s a hypnotic, psychotic, mantra driven beast of an album that is partly frightening, partly narcotic. You simply cannot help yourself from starting the album over once it has ended. A key aspect of 8 is the extremely well-written stoner riffs that are omnipresent throughout the 8 crushing and devasting rituals that are performed to perfection.”

And as you can see on the full list, there are a lot more favorite metal albums of 2017. Albums from Amenra, Code Orange, Powertrip, Horizonless, Myrkur, The Lurking Fear, Telekinetic Yeti and Fen.

But a lot of other records have impressed us in 2017 and these will definitely still be spinning in 2018. In no particular order, you should really check out the following records if you haven’t already had them on infinite spin